CHEF-from-hell Gordon Ramsay is uncharacteristically silent about charges he rigged parts of his upcoming reality show.

Four days after being slapped with a $29-million lawsuit claiming he’d concocted “fake TV” situations for his new reality show, “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares,” Ramsay is refusing to talk.

The suit is a PR nightmare for the brawny, blonde star of “Hell’s Kitchen,” who was just starting to become a household name in the U.S.

The third edition of “Hell’s Kitchen” is one of the summer’s runaway hits. His first American restaurant, The London in Midtown, has weathered a rocky opening and was beginning to find its feet.

But now his image has taken a blow.

In the new show, Ramsay comes into a struggling restaurant and whips the staff into shape in a week.

But according to the suit filed by Martin Hyde, the former manager of the theater-district restaurant, Purnima-Dillons, when Ramsay came in, he staged a number of disasters to make the eatery seem much worse than it really was.

Ramsay allegedly planted rotten meat in the W. 54th St. restaurant so he could shout to diners, “Tell the customers to consider themselves lucky! I have just saved their lives!”

He also sneaked a broken chair into the restaurant to make it seem even the seating was unsafe, the suit says.

In one scene, Ramsay threw Hyde’s cellphone on the sidewalk and made him crawl to retrieve it – then fired him with cameras rolling for dramatic effect, according to the lawsuit.

“Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” is based on the British TV hit of the same name, the show that brought him his first flash of TV fame.

And this isn’t the first time Ramsay’s methods on “Kitchen Nightmares” have been questioned.

Back in 2005, in an article in the Evening Standard, he was accused of faking scenes while trying to save a restaurant in Silsden, West Yorkshire, for the British version of the show.